As COVID vaccine demand falls, states left with huge stockpiles

[Demovictory9]

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/covid-vaccine-demand-falls-states-left-with-huge-stockpiles

As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste.

From some of the least vaccinated states, like Indiana and North Dakota, to some of the most vaccinated states, like New Jersey and Vermont, public health departments are shuffling doses around in the hopes of finding providers that can use them.

State health departments told The Associated Press they have tracked millions of doses that went to waste, including ones that expired, were in a multi-dose vial that couldn't be used completely or had to be tossed for some other reason like temperature issues or broken vials.

Nearly 1.5 million doses in Michigan, 1.45 million in North Carolina, 1 million in Illinois and almost 725,000 doses in Washington couldn't be used.
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The problem is not unique to the U.S. More than a million doses of the Russian Sputnik vaccine expired this week in Guatemala, because nobody wanted to take the shot.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/covid-vaccine-demand-falls-states-left-with-huge-stockpiles

[DFW]

1. I wouldn't want Sputnik, either

On the other hand, I would gladly get a second booster as soon as one was available.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. December 2020, I'd have gladly gotten a shot of Sputnik V

March 2021, we finally got our first shot. Sputnik V was not on the menu.

On boosters, I agree As soon as a second is approved, I'll roll up my sleeve.

With all this talk of surplus sitting on shelves, why are we not shipping to South America and Africa? The battle is global.

[DFW]

3. Probably something as banal as logistics

As soon as someone figures where there is a supply, and a safe way how to get it to where is need, I‘m sure some government or NGO would foot the bill. Maybe the CGI? It sounds like the kind of thing Bill Clinton would go for.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "why are we not shipping to South America and Africa? The battle is global."

https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/ (please bookmark this)

States work with CDC to obtain doses based on their population and estimates of who still needs to be vaccinated and/or boosted and if they can't get people to get "up to date" on their vaccines or even vaccinated at all short of rounding them up, detaining them in "FEMA camps", strapping them to a chair, and injecting them, then they are going to have surplus - and mainly because the vials are made to provide multiple doses (6 per vial) and are shipped with 195 vials per tray (Pfizer's, which is the most common mRNA one).

I hate the continual "the U.S. and Biden are doing nothing" falsehoods about everything under the sun that keeps getting posted on DU.

[Hugin]

5. I agree on the "do nothing" refrain, which seems everywhere...

These days.

Particularly on the Ukrainian crisis.

A huge part of success in a military operation is not telling your foe what your next move is in advance. Surprise is key.

I’m chalking it up to the usual self possessed idiots who think they run the world through their coffee clutch and there is an element of the media always wanting to front run the scoop. Because it’s easier than working.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. With respect to the U.S. strategy with Ukraine

it would be idiotic to broadcast every move to the public far and wide as if Russia is not "listening".

But then when it's not "broadcast", that somehow equals "Biden and the U.S. are doing nothing".

We just saw what happened when a pair of jackass GOP Senators "broadcast" (tweeted) something (a snapshot of Zelensky's Zoom meeting with Congress) that they were told not to do.

[Hugin]

8. The only time in my life I have ever witnessed slow boat...

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Diplomacy was in the Falkland Islands.

Every opportunity was given to the Argentinians to realize they had made a mistake and they never wised up.

Ultimately it was very expensive for the British, but, it was a gamble they could afford to take. Because it was unlikely their adversaries could beef up their defense as they went in “all in”.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Oh geez

And that was 40 years ago this year!

[Hugin]

12. On the covis...

(As my elderly parent has christened it)

It would seem a combination of the SCOTUS decision and finally cowing to the commercial special interests has placed the burden of the pandemic on those who already carry burdens. The socialize the risk and privatize the profits song. Just in time for Spring Break.

I realized this was the case during the super bowl. The popular consensus in the US is that it is worth killing 3 or 400 of the weakest among us to sell soap.

This is why fully half of the US population has had the disease in one of it’s mutations and can claim a fifth of the recorded deaths worldwide.

I would like to see a last vaccination push being one that is specific to Omicron and those sub-variations. Then I suppose it would be back to YOYO.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Well various companies have been working on combo vaccines

of flu + COVID-19, so once that is nailed down, it can hopefully be annual, adjusted to include whatever the major variants of concern are at the time of manufacture.

[Walleye]

7. I do not feel at all ashamed for taking my fourth Pfizer shot

It was six months past my third shot. I don’t see how we’re supposed to feel like the rich countries are being selfish when doses of vaccine are going to waste all over the world because people just won’t take them

[Strelnikov_]

10. I would like to get a boost for my boost

4+ months out.

They should be going into arms instead of being thrown out.

Having a boosted population helped with Omicron.

[Walleye]

11. Absolutely. I don't want any part of this disease mild or otherwise

[Strelnikov_]

14. Time to get a boost for my boost by any means possible

Even mild Covid is linked to brain damage, scans show

"During at least the first few months following a coronavirus infection, even mild cases of Covid-19 are associated with subtle tissue damage and accelerated losses in brain regions tied to the sense of smell, as well as a small loss in the brain’s overall volume, a new British study finds. Having mild Covid is also associated with a cognitive function deficit. "


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